Stardust Birthday Party is about what is happening underneath all of this life stuff. It was the perfect doorway to look inside the place I'd been avoiding forever: myself. I laugh about it all now, but at the time it all felt like an absolute nightmare. I was also writing songs for Heavy Meta - my frustrated with humanity album. At one point, I was a very lost mid-twenties person living in Philadelphia, in a relationship with someone struggling with mental health issues and crippling heroin addiction. Specifically, one human's evolution: mine, Ron Gallo. "Stardust Birthday Party is about human evolution. Ron Gallo - Stardust Birthday Party CD/LP (New West) Produced by Marshall and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck), the album includes appearances by longtime friends and compatriots, as well as guest vocals courtesy of recent tourmate Lana Del Rey.
Even though it was, in many ways, a period of profound upheaval and radical change, those experiences resulted in a record that is arguably the most assured artistic statement of her career. In the six years since the release of 2012's Sun, she has traveled the world, given birth to a child, and parted ways with her previous record label. Wanderer, Cat Power's stunning tenth studio album, marks a pivotal moment in both Marshall's life and her career. Under the musical nom de plume of Cat Power, Marshall has released music for nearly 25 years now and her prowess as a songwriter, a producer, and most notably - as a voice - has only grown more influential with time. There are few voices more deeply embedded in the iconography and mythology of American indie rock than that of Chan Marshall.
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Buy the new album at Grimey's and you'll get a pair of free tickets to the Basement East show! We have a very limited supply of tickets to the Phosphorescent show at The Basement East on Saturday, October 6th. With a focus on translating these profound experiences to music as intuitively as he could, Houck pushes the boundaries of what a Phosphorescent record can sound like, balancing the earthy and the incandescent, the troubled and the serene, creating his own musical cosmos in the process. Matthew Houck's first new Phosphorescent release in five years chronicles a life-altering period which saw him fall in love, start a family, leave New York for Nashville, and build a studio from the ground up. Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie CD/LP (Dead Oceans)
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